The high price of beef (hooray!) has increased demand for pork & chicken, which has driven up the price of both. I'm sure the drought in Cali is playing into that as well.
Cool lightning strike page. They even have a zoom-in map for Texas. You can watch CA and OR later this week and predict where the wildfires will start. http://www.blitzortung.org/Webpages/index.php?lang=en&page_0=30
To keep my Bruh curb appeal up. Or the other one is a mess. Shoots over the fence, into the neighbors driveway, out onto the main road, etc. POS.
And right on cue, another powerful afternoon storm. Glad it's coming through, it was hot as hell out there. <iframe width="640" height="360" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/9HO32j-4roM?feature=player_embedded" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
A scary and interesting read, maybe better suited for the D&D since it is politically charged but this thread was already open. Who Stole the Water? By PAUL SOLOTAROFF Jul 2014 How greed, drought, and rampant overdevelopment are sucking Texas dry. http://www.mensjournal.com/magazine/print-view/who-stole-the-water-20140623 "Don't fall in with an open cut," warns Treybig. "That **** gets on you, might have to chop off the limb." "Climate change and drought – those aren't just concepts; we're living them every day in Bastrop County."
Things look encouraging. Lake Travis has recovered a little from where it was in 2013: http://travis.uslakes.info/Level.asp. And, the drought maps are looking better than this time last year: http://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/MapsAndData/MapArchive.aspx.
I was just about to post the new draught images. Things are looking MUCH better in Tx. Semi Large image of the Temperatures. Spoiler
Wow. All of the Houston area along with most of SE Texas is back to normal. Never thought I'd see the day.
Predictions of a a "Super" El Nino have fallen to a moderate to weak El Nino this Fall. Should help things out with not quite the devastation of flooding a strong El Nino would bring.
For all the sturm and drang in Austin these past few weeks, still in Stage 2 drought. They won't see solace even beyond mid-2015. Hopefully that prediction is wrong...
